Comments on: GIS without a GIS ?

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:41:04 +0000

What’s so wrong with using a GIS? There’s open source options if company has zero budget but surely they can stump up the cash for something like Manifold. You could then connect to the openstreetmap web service. Are you adamant that you need the detail that OS offers?

John’s suggestion sounds equally valid and at least you get your OS overlay.

By: john fagan

john fagan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:58:36 +0000

Hi Ed -

Your friend could upload their data in a CSV file to our secure hosted client database and then use the Multimap Search API to display the points on OS Land Ranger or OS Explorer maps.

http://www.multimap.com/share/documentation/api/1.2/web_service/ws_searching.htm

(Contact details at bottom)

cheers, John.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:07:37 +0000

Gavin Brocks great OSMapsKML file will meet your technical requirements instantly though resolving Licensing issues with OS will take forever!

This highlights what a nonsense the whole OS licensing regime is.

http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/google-earth/osmaps.html

By: Andrew Larcombe

Andrew Larcombe — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:25:19 +0000

Technically it’s straightforward to put something together to do this with a couple of neat scripts. It’s almost certainly though contravenes the users ‘agreement’ with the data provider (either the OS, or third parties such as MultiMap).